Pausing the game. . .

[Seco_In_The_Bushes]

Allright, does anyone know if its possible to "pause" the players and projectiles in the game, so that then you could set their viewtargets and have a sort of cinematic sequence. I would assume this would mean putting players in a state where they could not move or fire, but what about pausing projectiles? When you type playersonly at the ut console it stops all things except you and your weapons. . . Does anyone know how to do this?

 

[Brood_of_Evil]

there's a comand for the console called Playersonly, which pauses the action of all non playerpawn actors in the game, you can check out the exec function in the playerpawn class, maybe you can figure something out with it

 

[Techno JF]

I just thought of something along these lines. You might be able to pause the game by resetting the game's TimeDilation variable to zero. I found this variable in the properties of the LevelInfo actor. I don't imagine you could just change the variable and the effects would take place automatically, but I figure it's a good place to start exploring.

 

[Shiit]

If you want to really stop the projectile, you might want to set it's physics type to PHYS_None. I think that might work.

 

[Raeled]

for non-players

yes, like said the playersonly might work.
quick search in playerpawn found this:

exec function PlayersOnly()
{
  if ( Level.Netmode != NM_Standalone )
    return;

  Level.bPlayersOnly = !Level.bPlayersOnly;
}

So setting level.bPlayersOnly to true will pause all exept players.
for playerpawns i think there is a state to pause them. return to na pali paused the player for that little radio conversation in spaceship. If you got the game, it won't hurt to take a look.

Or try to look in the UT code, to see how the playerpawns will not move if game has finished. not sure if this state affects any other things.